---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8831"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8831"
heading: "Municipal waste energy development plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8831"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels"
  - "Subchapter II — Municipal Waste Biomass Energy"
---

# §8831. Municipal waste energy development plan

- (a) **Preparation by Secretary of Energy; consultative requirements—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Energy shall prepare a comprehensive plan for carrying out this subchapter. In the preparation of such plan, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall consult with the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Commerce, and the head of such other [Federal agencies](/usc/42/8802.md?p=10) as the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) deems appropriate.
- (b) **Transmittal to President and Congress—** Not later than 90 days after June 30, 1980, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall transmit the comprehensive plan to the President and the Congress.
- (c) **Required statements—** The comprehensive plan under this section shall include a statement setting forth—
  - (1) the anticipated research, development, demonstration, and commercialization objectives to be achieved;
  - (2) the management structure and approach to be adopted to carry out such plan;
  - (3) the program strategies, including detailed milestone goals to be achieved;
  - (4) the specific funding requirements for individual program elements and activities, including the total estimated [construction](/usc/42/8802.md?p=9-A) costs of proposed [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2); and
  - (5) the estimated relative financial contributions of the Federal Government and non-Federal participants in the program.
- (d) **Report to President and Congress; contents—** Not later than January 1, 1982, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress a report containing a complete description of any financial, institutional, environmental, and social barriers to the development and application of technologies for the recovery of energy from [municipal wastes](/usc/42/8802.md?p=14-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title II, § 231, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 696.)